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I feel this is an updated version of "The Miracle of Forgiveness" with the kindness and tone of Elder Anderson. Less of a slap in the face like President Kimball's book. But still jarring to realize how far sin puts us away from God.
So this book is really a focus on repentance and how God forgives us. I assumed it focused on us forgiving others when I picked it up, but there's only one chapter on that.
So this book is really a focus on repentance and how God forgives us. I assumed it focused on us forgiving others when I picked it up, but there's only one chapter on that.
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Pretty common problem in GA books that the audience is unclear. Clearly this wasn’t written as a proselytizing tool, but there are whole chapters just rehashing the plan of salvation.
Much of it was synthesized material, but there were a few really insightful moments and overall it serves as a good reminder to keep turning to the Savior. I appreciate the more thoughtful tone that church leaders are taking towards sin lately.
Much of it was synthesized material, but there were a few really insightful moments and overall it serves as a good reminder to keep turning to the Savior. I appreciate the more thoughtful tone that church leaders are taking towards sin lately.
Clear, thoughtful, inspiring, to the point. Excellent treatise on forgiveness and its adjacent principles.
This was AMAZING! I mainly read and listened
to this for a religious class I was taking called institute for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the teacher who taught it was amazing. I took a different classs with him on zoom (same as this class) over the summer for the first time and he was just as good. So I thought why not sign up for another zoom class of his and I decided to do this one. So for the past few months, I've been getting up an hour early twice a week for my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they were from 830am-915/20 am. It was worth it!
This book changed me and gave me new perspectives of Christ's Atonement and repentance and to know more about God's love, why a Savior, why the Atonement, why forgiveness and other things such as the difference between feeling Godly Sorrow vs. Worldly sorrow when repenting. And also seeking forgiveness mainly from God since seeking it from those we've hurt or did something to fall off the path a small moment, ultimately we need to feel Godly sorrow and ask for God's forgiveness most of all.
All of that was amazing but there were also some parts in particular that had helped me personally to know that because I was sexually abused and to see that my abuser, my own dad, will never want to change it seems, I felt peace to know even more so thst I'm on loan to my earthly parents. My Heavenly Father is my real Father and loves me more than I can ever know. The author said as follows for those who have been abused,
"For those who have been sexually abused or unfairly taken advantage of, let me say to you that God loves you in a way that I can scarcely express. In the eyes of God the Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, chastity and virtue can never be taken from someone else's terrible abuse toward you and violation of your God-given body. Chastity and virtue are spiritual qualities determined by our own choices and cherished by God. No one can rob or take these away from you. Those who have attempted to do so will pay a terrible price for their wickedness. When they come to a spiritual recognition of what they have actually done, whether in this life or the next, they will have to bear the burden of their sins. Their suffering will be enormous. Jesus said, "Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea."
If they do in fact, repent in this life, and desire to make restitution, they will cry unto God with all their soul that He might heal the suffering of the ones violated by them. Your offender may pay a significant price, but this will never be able to make full restitution for the pain and suffering that has come to you. This explains, in part, why forgiveness from The Church for sexual abuse and unfaithfulness requires much more than merely acknowledging these sins.
There is a supernal, heavenly love for the innocent that have been harmed by the evil acts of others. If you, in your innocence, have been a victim of the unholy choices of others, I promise you that God knows you, loves you, and will help take the pain from you as you turn to Him in your sorrow....Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, I promise you that you will receive compensatory blessing for the injustices thrust upon your life. The Lord has promised that through Him you may receive 'beauty for Ashes' (Isaiah 61:3). In time, you will also be blessed with the spiritual gift to forgive. The sins and spiritual sickness of others will one day hurt you no more as you feel the Lord lift the burdens of your broken heart and completely heal the wounds in your soul."
So to hear and read that, I felt like God was almost talking to me personally and I just felt so much joy and happiness and peace all over again to surely know that my Savior atoned for me, for my pain and sorrows. My iniquities. The abuse I would have to go through. In another part of this book, Neil L. Andersen says of Christ's suffering in Gethsemane in Jerusalem,
"In the terrible suffering in Gethsemane, Mark said that Jesus was "sore amazed." "Sore amazed" in Geeek means astonished, awestruck. Jesus had known since our Premortal life that He would take upon Himself the sins of all, but He had never experienced the Atonement. The agony, the pain, was immeasurable. In our day, He described His experience as "the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God," "which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit." Jesus Christ was being "bruised for our iniquities."
To hear what He went through as it was described by Him, I think of times his His suffering and Atonement can and has been taken advantage of. As if He went through all He did for nothing. But if I now ever make any kinds of shortcomings or mistakes which I do of course cause I'm human and not perfect, I never want to take the Atonement for granted ever even though I never would. But after this book, I've become closer to knowing my Father in Heaven and Savior loves me. To know that without Christ's Atoning sacrifice and His resurrection, we wouldn't be able to fully repent to God and cry TO HIM and ASK HIM most of all to forgive us. We can ask our leaders and others to forgive us for our sins, but ultimately, it's actually God we truly and mainly need to ask for that forgiveness since in a way we also offended Him and need to make restitution with Him.
If anyone had questions about my faith or anything about this, I can try and answer. Messaging would be better actually and please no hateful comments or anything. I will delete those.
to this for a religious class I was taking called institute for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the teacher who taught it was amazing. I took a different classs with him on zoom (same as this class) over the summer for the first time and he was just as good. So I thought why not sign up for another zoom class of his and I decided to do this one. So for the past few months, I've been getting up an hour early twice a week for my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they were from 830am-915/20 am. It was worth it!
This book changed me and gave me new perspectives of Christ's Atonement and repentance and to know more about God's love, why a Savior, why the Atonement, why forgiveness and other things such as the difference between feeling Godly Sorrow vs. Worldly sorrow when repenting. And also seeking forgiveness mainly from God since seeking it from those we've hurt or did something to fall off the path a small moment, ultimately we need to feel Godly sorrow and ask for God's forgiveness most of all.
All of that was amazing but there were also some parts in particular that had helped me personally to know that because I was sexually abused and to see that my abuser, my own dad, will never want to change it seems, I felt peace to know even more so thst I'm on loan to my earthly parents. My Heavenly Father is my real Father and loves me more than I can ever know. The author said as follows for those who have been abused,
"For those who have been sexually abused or unfairly taken advantage of, let me say to you that God loves you in a way that I can scarcely express. In the eyes of God the Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, chastity and virtue can never be taken from someone else's terrible abuse toward you and violation of your God-given body. Chastity and virtue are spiritual qualities determined by our own choices and cherished by God. No one can rob or take these away from you. Those who have attempted to do so will pay a terrible price for their wickedness. When they come to a spiritual recognition of what they have actually done, whether in this life or the next, they will have to bear the burden of their sins. Their suffering will be enormous. Jesus said, "Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea."
If they do in fact, repent in this life, and desire to make restitution, they will cry unto God with all their soul that He might heal the suffering of the ones violated by them. Your offender may pay a significant price, but this will never be able to make full restitution for the pain and suffering that has come to you. This explains, in part, why forgiveness from The Church for sexual abuse and unfaithfulness requires much more than merely acknowledging these sins.
There is a supernal, heavenly love for the innocent that have been harmed by the evil acts of others. If you, in your innocence, have been a victim of the unholy choices of others, I promise you that God knows you, loves you, and will help take the pain from you as you turn to Him in your sorrow....Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, I promise you that you will receive compensatory blessing for the injustices thrust upon your life. The Lord has promised that through Him you may receive 'beauty for Ashes' (Isaiah 61:3). In time, you will also be blessed with the spiritual gift to forgive. The sins and spiritual sickness of others will one day hurt you no more as you feel the Lord lift the burdens of your broken heart and completely heal the wounds in your soul."
So to hear and read that, I felt like God was almost talking to me personally and I just felt so much joy and happiness and peace all over again to surely know that my Savior atoned for me, for my pain and sorrows. My iniquities. The abuse I would have to go through. In another part of this book, Neil L. Andersen says of Christ's suffering in Gethsemane in Jerusalem,
"In the terrible suffering in Gethsemane, Mark said that Jesus was "sore amazed." "Sore amazed" in Geeek means astonished, awestruck. Jesus had known since our Premortal life that He would take upon Himself the sins of all, but He had never experienced the Atonement. The agony, the pain, was immeasurable. In our day, He described His experience as "the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God," "which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit." Jesus Christ was being "bruised for our iniquities."
To hear what He went through as it was described by Him, I think of times his His suffering and Atonement can and has been taken advantage of. As if He went through all He did for nothing. But if I now ever make any kinds of shortcomings or mistakes which I do of course cause I'm human and not perfect, I never want to take the Atonement for granted ever even though I never would. But after this book, I've become closer to knowing my Father in Heaven and Savior loves me. To know that without Christ's Atoning sacrifice and His resurrection, we wouldn't be able to fully repent to God and cry TO HIM and ASK HIM most of all to forgive us. We can ask our leaders and others to forgive us for our sins, but ultimately, it's actually God we truly and mainly need to ask for that forgiveness since in a way we also offended Him and need to make restitution with Him.
If anyone had questions about my faith or anything about this, I can try and answer. Messaging would be better actually and please no hateful comments or anything. I will delete those.
I’ve long felt that Spencer W. Kimball’s book “The Miracle of Forgiveness” is the best book on repentance, although it is also true that reading that book is like taking very-strong medicine: good for the soul but kind of bitter going down. This book by Elder Anderson is probably my new “go to” book on repentance. It’s full of love and hope and also plain doctrine that keeps things grounded in the need for repentance. Although The Miracle of Forgiveness ultimately feels hopeful, it takes nearly until the end of the book to get to that feeling. This book, in contrast, deals with many of the same concepts, but the love and hope are there right from the start, which makes it a bit stronger, in my mind, as a tool for encouraging, supporting, and guiding a person toward repentance through the Savior Jesus Christ. Since we all need to repent in one way or another, a book that breaths hope and love feels like the right approach.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Loved this book! So many good truths in here about forgiveness and repentance from an Apostle of the Lord. I only wish I would have read this when I was serving as a bishop, but so much I can still apply in my own life!
Absolutely loved this book! One of my favorite books on forgiveness and repentance! Elder Andersen presents the topic in a very compassionate way, and in a way you can easily understand! Would definitely recommend this book!
This was an amazing full-sweep of the topic of forgiveness. Elder Andersen covered everything from being forgiven for OUR sins to forgiving others for their wrongs against us. The doctrines were beautifully taught, but even more powerful were the accompanying stories. I will absolutely buy a hard copy to use to teach the principles of repentance and forgiveness to my children.